"Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]

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Description

Title
"Enjoying the verdure and silent waves" [art original]
Creator
Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created
[1885]
Publication Place
New York?
Abstract

A pastoral view of a lush riverbank covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers, and other greenery. A man sits on a rock near the shore and looks to the right out over the water. A house on the opposite bank can be seen in the distance on the right; gray clouds fill the sky above

Description
Title written below image. A quotation from Horace Walpole's letter 16 October 1769 to Madame du Deffand: I feel myself here like a swan, that, after living six weeks in a nasty pool upon a common, is got back into its own Thames. I do nothing but plume and clean myself, and enjoy the verdure and silent waves.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 109.
Bound in as page 65 in volume 5 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance
Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent
1 drawing : image 26.2 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 225 884S Copy 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Landscapes (Representations)
Watercolors American 19th century
Material
watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Rivers
Nature
Subjects
Rivers
Nature
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Citation
David Edward Cronin, "Enjoying the Verdure and Silent Waves". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
13690832
Object ID (OID)
16704366

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